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Join us at our first event of the year at The Information Lab on the historic Watling Street in the City of London 🙌 We will be kicking off 2026 by delving into the topic of real-time data with our speakers - Sam, Nicoleta & Anton. We are running this event in collaboration with Confluent.

6pm: Doors Open

6:30pm: Talks Start

🗣️The Speakers🗣️

Load-In to Lights-Out: Data Engineering the World's Biggest Tours and Live Events Sam Malcolm, Head of Architecture & Engineering at Centrus (Sam's Linkedin) Sam’s session dives into lessons from large-scale live event data systems—handling over 10 billion data points per second for global tours like Beyoncé, Coldplay, and Glastonbury. He connects the extreme demands of real-time analytics and high-performance networking to modern cloud data practices, showing how the same principles of speed, resilience, and precision apply when designing reliable, scalable data platforms today.

Should I Stream or Should I Join: From Regular to Delta Joins in Apache Flink Nicoleta Lazar, Senior Data Engineer at Fresha & Anton Borisov, Principal Engineer at Fresha (Niloceta's LinkedIn , Anton's LinkedIn) Joins in the streaming world are where the fun stops and the tradeoffs start. State that grows forever, latency that spikes unpredictably, watermarks that never quite behave, every Flink developer has war stories about this. In this session, Anton Borisov and Nicoleta Lazar break down the join landscape in Apache Flink:

→ Regular joins and the state explosion problem → Interval joins: when they work, when they don't → Temporal joins and the versioned table dance → Lookup joins: the escape hatch and its hidden costs → Delta joins: the new kid and how Fluss enables them, and why it matters

Talks finish by 8pm and there will be a break between the talks. Afterwards, we may head to a pub to continue chatting.

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See you all on the 22nd January 🤩

Happy Networking 🍻

Checkout Meetup Groups run by Confluent:

• https://www.meetup.com/london-real-time-data-meetup/
• https://www.meetup.com/data-streaming-europe/

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• Respect others' opinions.
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IMPORTANT: PLEASE RSVP @ https://www.meetup.com/data-engineers-london/events/312450363/

Details 6pm: Doors Open

6:30pm: Talks Start

🗣️The Speakers🗣️

Load-In to Lights-Out: Data Engineering the World's Biggest Tours and Live Events Sam Malcolm, Head of Architecture & Engineering at Centrus (Sam's Linkedin) Sam’s session dives into lessons from large-scale live event data systems—handling over 10 billion data points per second for global tours like Beyoncé, Coldplay, and Glastonbury. He connects the extreme demands of real-time analytics and high-performance networking to modern cloud data practices, showing how the same principles of speed, resilience, and precision apply when designing reliable, scalable data platforms today.

Should I Stream or Should I Join: From Regular to Delta Joins in Apache Flink Nicoleta Lazar, Senior Data Engineer at Fresha & Anton Borisov, Principal Engineer at Fresha (Niloceta's LinkedIn , Anton's LinkedIn) Joins in the streaming world are where the fun stops and the tradeoffs start. State that grows forever, latency that spikes unpredictably, watermarks that never quite behave, every Flink developer has war stories about this. In this session, Anton Borisov and Nicoleta Lazar break down the join landscape in Apache Flink:

→ Regular joins and the state explosion problem → Interval joins: when they work, when they don't → Temporal joins and the versioned table dance → Lookup joins: the escape hatch and its hidden costs → Delta joins: the new kid and how Fluss enables them, and why it matters

Talks finish by 8pm and there will be a break between the talks. Afterwards, we may head to a pub to continue chatting.

*** If you are interested in speaking at or hosting a meetup, please reach out to [email protected]

IMPORTANT: PLEASE RSVP @ https://www.meetup.com/data-engineers-london/events/312450363/

Details 6pm: Doors Open

6:30pm: Talks Start

🗣️The Speakers🗣️

Load-In to Lights-Out: Data Engineering the World's Biggest Tours and Live Events Sam Malcolm, Head of Architecture & Engineering at Centrus (Sam's Linkedin) Sam’s session dives into lessons from large-scale live event data systems—handling over 10 billion data points per second for global tours like Beyoncé, Coldplay, and Glastonbury. He connects the extreme demands of real-time analytics and high-performance networking to modern cloud data practices, showing how the same principles of speed, resilience, and precision apply when designing reliable, scalable data platforms today.

Should I Stream or Should I Join: From Regular to Delta Joins in Apache Flink Nicoleta Lazar, Senior Data Engineer at Fresha & Anton Borisov, Principal Engineer at Fresha (Niloceta's LinkedIn , Anton's LinkedIn) Joins in the streaming world are where the fun stops and the tradeoffs start. State that grows forever, latency that spikes unpredictably, watermarks that never quite behave, every Flink developer has war stories about this. In this session, Anton Borisov and Nicoleta Lazar break down the join landscape in Apache Flink:

→ Regular joins and the state explosion problem → Interval joins: when they work, when they don't → Temporal joins and the versioned table dance → Lookup joins: the escape hatch and its hidden costs → Delta joins: the new kid and how Fluss enables them, and why it matters

Talks finish by 8pm and there will be a break between the talks. Afterwards, we may head to a pub to continue chatting.

*** If you are interested in speaking at or hosting a meetup, please reach out to [email protected]

This month we’re delighted to be joined by Tesco’s Head of Data and we’ll also hear about the latest in AI Governance on Databricks from the Advancing Analytics team!

17:30 - 18:00: Arrival & Networking 18:00 - 18:10: Opening Remarks & Introductions

18:10 - 18:40: Building Sustainable Data Products with AI Readiness at Scale for Cyber - Varun S Gangoor - Head of Data at Tesco In this session, we’ll explore how sustainable data product design can enable AI readiness and drive innovation in cybersecurity. We’ll look at the key principles behind building scalable, secure and reusable data products that support cyber analytics, machine learning and GenAI use cases at scale. We’ll also discuss practical approaches to data governance, automation and platform engineering that help cyber teams turn data into actionable intelligence and strengthen overall cyber resilience.

18.40-19.10 Governing AI In Databricks: Building Trust And Compliance At Scale - Gavi Regunath, Advancing Analytics CAIO and Databricks MVP, joined by Terry McCann, Advancing Analytics CEO AI governance isn’t optional - it’s foundational. With 45% of organisations concerned about data accuracy and bias, and 40% worried about privacy, the need for robust oversight is clear. From model safety to compliance tooling, we’ll show how to embed trust into your AI systems, without slowing innovation.

19:00 onwards: Pizza, Drinks & Networking Enjoy some delicious pizza and beverages while networking with peers.

Join us for a fantastic evening of learning and networking at the London Databricks meetup!

What are dbt meetups? dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data! Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures.

🤝Organizer: dbt Labs (Amada Echeverría, Community Team) 🏠Venue/Host: Snowflake Office (Room: the Lodge on the 5th floor) @ One Crown Place, London EC2A 4EF, UK 🍕Catering: Refreshments will be provided

To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy

📝Agenda

• 5:00 - 5:40 \| Check in/Registration (40 min)
• 5:40 - 5:45 \| Welcome Remarks by our meetup host\, Snowflake (5 min) and dbt Labs’ Community Team
• 5:45 - 6:05 \| Presentation 1: Kshitij Aranke (Senior Software Engineer @ dbt Labs) on ‘Hands-on with our latest innovations in dbt Core 1.10” (20 min)
• 6:05 - 6:15 \| Presentation 1 Q&A (10 min)
• 6:15 - 6:35 \| Fireside chat with Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO @ dbt Labs) and Alex Lambert (Director Solution Engineering UK @ Snowflake) on The Analytics Development Lifecycle (20 min)
• 6:35 - 6:45 \| Q&A for Tristan and Alex (10 min)
• 6:45 -6:50 \| Closing Remarks by Snowflake and dbt Labs’ Community Team (5 min)
• 6:50 - 8:00 \| Reception (Please be mindful that we need to leave the space by 8:30)

EVENT DETAILS: The doors open at 5pm. Presentations begin at 5:40pm. Food and refreshments will be provided. The venue has capacity limits, so please update your RSVP status on the Meetup to "Not Going" if you are unable to attend.

DIRECTIONS: Please bring an ID. The Snowflake office is located on the 5th and 6th floor of a multi-tenant building. Upon arrival visitors are greeted at ground floor reception and asked to check-in and sign Snowflake’s NDA via the Envoy check-in system. Visitors are either escorted to the lift area or await the host to pick them up.

➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/ 🤝For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-ldn channel in dbt Slack (https://slack.getdbt.com/). ---------------------------------- dbt is the standard in data transformation, used by over 40,000 organizations worldwide. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust. Learn more: https://www.getdbt.com/

Our first London DevOps Society event has arrived! We are delighted to be partnered with our hosts Broadcom (who recently acquired VMware), with a trio of really exciting speakers lined up. Format of the meetup event will be as follows: 6pm – 6:30pm - Networking on arrival coupled with pizza and drinks provided by ReVybe IT. 6:30pm – 7:40pm – 3X 20 mins speakers with a 10-minute break in-between 2nd and 3rd speaker. 7:40pm onwards – Networking and event close. We are delighted to welcome 3 speakers to our first event. #1 – Vahid Mojtahed – Group Director of Data and Insights Vahid is a pioneer in the world of Data, with a specialism in AI/ML. He has led teams throughout his career, with a focus on innovation and collaboration. Accolades include: 2023 Invited Speaker at Data + AI World Tour by Databricks 2018 Recognized as Exceptional Talent by the British Academy for innovative work on fraud analytics and solution 2016 Invited speaker at Italian Academy of Science Title: Think Like a Machine, Win Like a Human: How AI & ML are Transforming Businesses Across Industries Vahid Mojtahed will kick start the evening by giving us an insight into how data, AI, and ML are empowering businesses and revolutionizing various industries. He will present examples of fraud detection in agri-food industry, financial forecasting in a global enterprise and accelerating property transaction using natural language processing. #2 – Fernando Villalba – DevOps/DevEX/Platform Engineer Fernando has over a decade of miscellaneous IT experience. He started in IT support ("Have you tried turning it on and off?"), veered to become a SysAdmin ("Don't you dare turn it off") and later segued into DevOps type of roles ("Destroy and replace!"). He has been a consultant for various multi-billion-dollar organizations helping them achieve their highest potential with their DevOps processes. Title: Platform engineering must kill RTFM Fernando Villalba will be speaking on how platform engineering must kill “read the f*ck!ng manual”. “It doesn't matter how great your documentation is or how much you tell developers to read the manual, if your design and user experience is terrible, you will get poor performance. In this talk we will explore how and why placing an emphasis on documentation at the expense of design is a bad practice, and we will also explore how this relates to your cloud provider and your internal developer platform. Whether you are looking to build your own platform or find a compass to pick better tooling for your developers, this talk may be helpful for you.” This talk is based on the following blog posts: https://nandovillalba.medium.com/platform-engineering-please-kill-rtfm-72de6f01075e https://nandovillalba.medium.com/ux-on-platform-engineering-1c7ecfaddea7 #3 – Chris Hurford – Strategic Customer Success Manager – Broadcom Chris is a senior technical leader who has a blend of technical and leadership skills, with a push towards agile software delivery and delivery management in recent years. He is passionate about developing and supporting high quality software products and systems, whilst motivating teams using agile methodologies. Chris has over 25 years of experience in the technology space, starting off as a software developer before moving into management. Title: An overview of the Tanzu software portfolio and Tanzu Lab's Platform Engineering services Lastly, we have Chris Hurford, a senior figure within the Broadcom engineering team, delivering a talk on Tanzu, which helps platform engineers accelerate application development and delivery so that developers can focus on building great apps. Tanzu Application Platform is a modular Kubernetes-based platform that allows you to build quickly and ship fast.

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by Cleo.

Agenda: 6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking.

Speakers: Klara Raic - Analytics Engineering Manager @ Monzo How to go from Analyst to Analytics Engineer

Ben King - "TBD" (ex-CTO, Tumelo) Introducing The "To Be Determined" Project

The London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

Food and drink will be provided by Cleo with additional support from Spectacles, SELECT, and Brooklyn Data Co.